Limessa

Victim of psychiatric drug harm. Member & volunteer in the withdrawal community. AD withdrawal is real but misunderstood.

[Limessa @Limessa810]

@DataDecoder11 Something needs to change because psychiatry can be a dangerous business. I've seen so much harm. It needs better training on adverse drug effects, safe deprescribing, withdrawal issues, and polypharmacy. Better yet, let's stop drugging normal human emotions!

[Limessa @Limessa810]

#LindsayClancy 📣

[Kindly #deprescribe -- taper psychiatric drugs @Altostrata]

The psychiatric providers in the Lindsay Clancy case are not legally culpable, but they were responsible for her tragedy. There are no clinical standards in psychiatric treatment. That they ignored her reports of adverse drug effects & pleas for help is normal procedure.

[Limessa @Limessa810]

#LindsayClancy 📣

[Kindly #deprescribe -- taper psychiatric drugs @Altostrata]

I hope all the psychiatric clinicians in the world are learning important lessons from the Lindsay Clancy tragedy, which would have been entirely avoidable with person-centered clinical care.

[Limessa @Limessa810]

True. It's the poor training that is at the heart of the matter. If they were trained properly, this wouldn't have happened. They were clueless about the adverse effects of drugs, withdrawal, and polypharmacy.

[Kindly #deprescribe -- taper psychiatric drugs @Altostrata]

THIS IS NORMAL CARE

Let us also indict the medical education system that produced “qualified” psychiatric clinicians who were incapable of recognizing adverse effects of psychiatric drugs, mistaking them for symptoms of psychiatric disorder.

[Limessa @Limessa810]

⬇️⬇️⬇️
#LindsayClancy

[Dr. Roger McFillin @DrMcFillin]

This is the profession that could not recognize an adverse drug reaction in a woman who reported it to them for four months straight. This is the profession that wrote down poor insight when a nurse told them a drug was harming her. And this same profession holds the legal authority to declare you or me mentally ill and take away our freedom.

No medical examination is required to do it. No test confirms the label. No court sees you first. The judgment of the clinician in the room is sufficient, and you have just read what that judgment is worth. Do you trust their judgment?

[Limessa @Limessa810]

@Psychiatry_Anti I understand. It's traumatizing for me too, and I have to set limits on how much I take in.

[Kindly #deprescribe -- taper psychiatric drugs @Altostrata]

Psychiatrist Jennifer Tufts read at least 6 papers about brexanolone for post-partum depression but did not consider it for Lindsay Clancy.

Tufts' letter to Lancet:
https://t.co/P79TvgegN0

[Limessa @Limessa810]

@Altostrata Good find! 👍

[Limessa @Limessa810]

When people with no knowledge of psychiatry or psychiatric drugs can see the utter MESS that Lindsay's doctors made, it highlights how flawed & broken the mental health system is.

Drug-based care is like playing Russian Roulette with a patient's brain. SCARY!

#lindsayclancy

[Ex mental health nurse 🦘🐨 @Australia_MH]

To everyone commenting Lindsey Clancy only took 50mg, read this ⤵️.
A single dose can achieve maximum occupancy within 4 hrs and is sustained with daily doses.
Adverse effects can happen within hours of taking ONE dose.
Mixing it with the other drugs & upping and downing and stopping doses is a recipe for disaster.
Those prescribers caused this disaster.
This was an avoidable tragedy.

#LindsayClancy #SSRI #PrescribedHarm #Psychiatry

[Limessa @Limessa810]

@itskikidanger Thanks for sharing this! THIS is the type of care that Lindsay needed and deserved but didn't get.

[Limessa @Limessa810]

@FreeKarenRead3 Welcome to the wonderful wacky (and dangerous) world of Psychiatry!

[Limessa @Limessa810]

@ScarlettJ225877 @BrianEntin These "doctors" definitely played a large part in Lindsay's demise. My blame goes towards them. She has already paid for what happened to her children and has to live with that every day. She deserves mercy, not judgment IMO.

[Limessa @Limessa810]

@FreeKarenRead3 The wrong person is on trial - just sayin'.

[Antidepressant Coalition for Education @ACE_CoalitionEd]

Abruptly stopping 50 mg of sertraline (Zoloft) can carry serious, life-threatening risks. According to the literature, at this dose, an estimated 74–85% of serotonin transporters in the brain remain occupied, meaning 50 mg is far from a small dose in terms of its pharmacologic effect. Withdrawal is likely to occur after abrupt discontinuation, especially among long-term users. Many people who have experienced severe and protracted SSRI withdrawal injuries report being harmed even after tapering from 50 mg using conventional linear tapering schedules.

Dr. Jennifer Tufts, who was Lindsay Clancy’s prescribing psychiatrist leading up to the unthinkable tragedy, told Ms. Clancy’s defense attorney, the jurors, and the American public that it is okay to abruptly stop 50 mg of Zoloft.

Please do not abruptly stop an antidepressant. Tapering should be individualized, with gradual, often hyperbolic dose reductions that become progressively smaller as the dose decreases. For many, this is a months- or years-long process.

Our deepest condolences go out to the entire Clancy family.

[Limessa @Limessa810]

@markhoro So many processes are at play with psychiatric drug withdrawal. My CNS is having a VERY hard time finding homeostasis again, especially after long-term use. It's not MY fault it's taking so many years.

When in doubt, the patient always gets blamed.

[Limessa @Limessa810]

@FreeKarenRead3 "Bow" - good one. Yeah, this case defies imagination.

[Limessa @Limessa810]

@Rebecca6209 @BlackshepSusan In addition to the ones that Susan mentioned, Taper Community has free information as well. You can create a free account to learn more.
https://t.co/EtJy3sJed6

[Limessa @Limessa810]

@FreeKarenRead3 This is normal psychiatric care!